First Snow of The Year – Awakening of the Pines (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 31:43 minutes | 255 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Modern Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Whitelabrecs
First Snow of The Year is the project of Belgium-based artist Erik Sevenans, who adopted this moniker in 2017 following his relocation to Munich, Germany. Whilst grappling with a foreign language and adjusting to his new environment, Erik found himself in the midst of an exceptionally cold winter that year. During this period of adaptation, he embarked on the creation of an album, delving into the exploration of ambient textures, a departure from his usual musical terrain. The album, born out of this experimental phase, coincided with the first snowfall of the year, thus being the reason for the project’s distinctive name. Originally conceived as Erik’s personal soundtrack for his daily subway commute while engrossed in Murakami novels, the project took on a life of its own.
Read moreEnsemble Les Surprises & Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas – Charpentier & Desmarest: Te Deum (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:15 minutes | 936 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
Deux Te Deum en miroir : celui, très célèbre, de Marc-Antoine Charpentier ; et celui, totalement inédit, d’Henry Desmarest. Charpentier et Desmarets, de remarquables compositeurs tant dans le domaine de la musique sacrée que dans l’opéra, partagent leur goût de la musique italienne et des voyages, mais partagent également la défaveur d’avoir été quelques temps dans « l’ombre » de Jean-Baptiste Lully… Desmarest a composé deux Te Deum durant sa période lorraine, dont le Te Deum « de Lyon » totalement inédit. Écrit pour la même formation que le célèbre Te Deum de Charpentier, il utilise les trompettes et timbales pour les sections grandiloquentes.
Read moreEllen Andrea Wang – Blank Out (2017/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:02 minutes | 406 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazzland Recordings
Sting and Paul McCartney have shown the way: it can produce fantastic results to play bass, sing and lead a band at the same time playing bass, singing and leading a band at the same time. Ellen Andrea Wang also possesses these talents and yet is a special in the pop business.
Read moreEkaterina Litvintseva – Pejačević: Chamber Music (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:19:31 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
The pianist Ekaterina Litvintseva won critical praise for her solo album on Piano Classics (PCL10226) of piano music by Dora Pejačević: ‘You owe it to yourself to make the acquaintance of Dora Pejačević if you haven’t done so already.’ (Fanfare, May 2022).
Read moreDave Young Quartet, Dave Young – June Night (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:12 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Modica Music
“Vintage” is what oddly keeps popping into my mind as I listen to this music. It’s brand new! But then again, like a harvest of great grapes ready to be blended, a first taste shows the quality. All the elements, the terroir is there.
Read moreDaniella Rivera – Canciones de la Huerta (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 30:32 minutes | 351 MB | Genre: Latin, Pop, Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Daniella Rivera
A dozen micro-songs of less than a minute was the origin. The Chilean violinist and composer Daniella Rivera created this small soundtrack for a radio drama premiered during the pandemic, and two years later the work grew to give rise to her first album, “Canciones de la huerta”, which the author will present with a concert this Thursday, December 7 at 20:00 in the SCD Room of the Bellavista neighborhood, at 110 Santa Filomena Street, Recoleta commune in Santiago.
Read moreCharles Castronovo, Munich Radio Orchestra & Ivan Repušić – Puccini: I Canti – Orchestral Songs & Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:25 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik
Established in 1952, the Munich Radio Orchestra has developed into a body engaged in a wide spectrum of musical activity. There have been gala concerts and opera concert performances in particular, under the direction of Marcello Viotti, as well as a Paradisi Gloria series devoted to the sacred music of the 20th century, concerts for children and young people, and theme evenings.
Read moreAlban Beikircher – Five Centuries of Violin Music (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:17:25 minutes | 2,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © HR Recordings
5 Centuries of Violin Music presents violin repertoire out of five centuries in a recital program featuring violinist Alban Beikircher.
There is no instrument, that features such a rich and broad expressiveness.
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Above all, it were especially composing violin virtuosos which steadily continued developing the tonal and technical possibilities of the violin to this day.
This recording provides an overview of this through representative composers from different periods of the history of the instrument.
From Biber and his beautiful “Rosary Sonatas”, then Tartini and his “Devil’s Trill” Sonate, one of Mozart Sonatas with piano, Paganini’s “Caprice”, Ysaÿe’s solo Sonate nº2 , the almost forgotten “Arabian Song” in a revision by Kreisler and a new piece by young German composer Tobias Peschanel (1983).
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